Occupy AstroTurf

The 'movement' faded as soon as the tents were removed.

By

L. Gordon Crovitz

Updated Jan. 29, 2012 6:25 p.m. ET

One of last year's biggest news stories was presented as protesters taking over a park in New York's financial district for two months. The Occupy Wall Street message was fuzzy, but many politicians picked up on the theme of dividing Americans by class into 99% versus 1%. They might want to be careful: The root cause of the appearance of strength by Occupy Wall Street was its photo-op occupation of a park, which now even protest organizers admit should never have happened.